Enabling Online Securities Quotes

[David Reiser]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 1:19 AM, Andreas Köhler wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Am Montag, den 05.11.2007, 23:04 -0500 schrieb David Reiser:
>> OK. I know a little more about this now. Turns out gnc-fq-dump is
>> hard
>> coded to use /usr/bin/perl, so it will only work if you have all the
>> necessary perl modules CPANned into your system perl.
>>
>> Gnucash uses whichever perl the $PATH finds (first, supposedly), so  
>> if
>> you get all the dependency modules installed in that perl, gnucash
>> oughtta work.
>
> Ah, right, that was me to make price-quotes accessible from Windows  
> (no
> shebangs).  Would "/usr/bin/env perl -w" instead of "@-PERL-@ -w" and
> "/usr/bin/perl" in the perl scripts within src/quotes work for you?
>
> -- andi5
That would at least remove the inconsistency between gnc-fq-dump and  
the other fq related scripts/dependencies.

It turns out that I'm now looking for the best way to enforce use of  
the system perl for the fink installation of gnucash. Fink makes it  
trivial to add (or remove) extra versions of perl. That messes up  
quote retrieval, and sometimes leads to the "An unexpected error  
occurred..." alert.

I think your proposed solution will work for folks that consistently  
use a non-system perl, and I'll try something like "PERL=/usr/bin/ 
perl ./configure..."

Dave
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